Moving Parts

A feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story he neither controls nor understands; his characters multiply, go astray, and start rival stories of their own. The increasingly desperate narrator chases them through the streets, the underground, and across rooftops. This work tells of the sadness of the world and of the inadequate means that language and storytelling offer for describing and understanding it.

Magdalena Tulli was born in 1955. "In Red" (Wczerwieni, 1998), her second book, also received great critical acclaim in Poland and elsewhere. Tulli lives in Warsaw, where she works as a psychologist and translator. Johnston is Director of the Polish Studies Center at Indiana University. His translations include Gustaw Herling's The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories (New Directions, 2003), Jerzy Pilch's His Current Woman (Grove, 2002), and Stefan Zeromski's The Faithful River (Northwestern, 1999). In 2005, he won an ASTEEL translation prize for Tulli's Dreams and Stones.

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